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The Neon Rain (Paperback)

by James Lee Burke (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Mysterious Press (25 Jan 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712634967
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712634960
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,103,600 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux Johnny Massina, a convicted murderer bound for the electric chair, has warned Dave Robicheaux that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp - a case no one seems keen for him to investigate. But Robicheaux persists and uncovers a web of corruption that some would kill to protect, leading him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

James Lee Burke is the author of twenty-two previous novels, including twelve featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana and New Iberia, Louisiana. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A bleak and hard hitting introduction to Dave Robicheaux, 19 Feb 2001
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This review is from: The Neon Rain (Paperback)
Dave Robicheaux first appears as one of the 'Bobbsey Twins from Homicide' with his difficult and unpredictable partner Clete Purcell.

As usual the prose is beautiful and captures the essence of New Orleans and the desperate characters within it.

This introduction to Dave documents his decline and fall from the New Orleans Police Department as well as the wagon. Bleak and in some respects more violent than later novels. Dave is very much alone in this tale, emotionally isolated in his boat house on Lake Ponchartrain and socially excluded from his colleagues at the police station following his suspension from duty. His relationship with his partner Clete, his only close friend is also strained to the limits as they both undergo life changing events in their own lives. Its not the best of the Robicheaux stories but will put a lot of the later plots into perspective and adds vital components of Dave's early life and character.

A must for all Dave Robicheaux and James Lee Burke fans.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just great writing, 12 Jan 2001
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Having only just discovered crime novels, as a bit of 'light relief' from heavier fair, I have to say this was superb...simply great writing. Wonderfully atmospheric, full of local colour and great idiomatic language, balls out energy and narrative commitment. I definitely rate it as unputdownable and even better than P Cornwell.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Dark Masterpiece, 27 Jun 2001
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Neon Rain provides the template for all the subsequent Robicheaux novels. In this book, rejected by countless publishers before its eventual appearance, Lee Burke sets out his stall of atmospheric, hypnotic prose combined with a semi-surreal insight into Louisiana's underbelly. This book could only have been written by someone who has hit bottom himself.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong Cajun thriller
Complex crime thriller based on Louisiana police Lieutenant Robicheaux who gets way out of his depth investigating gun-running to nasty regimes in South America. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Officer Dibble

4.0 out of 5 stars Great start to a great series
Read this when it was first published by Vintage (in the late eighties or early nineties !!!) in the UK. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. Gareth Price

4.0 out of 5 stars Great start to a great series
Read this when it was first published by Vintage (in the late eighties or early nineties !!!) in the UK. Read more
Published 12 months ago

4.0 out of 5 stars Good enough start to a series - I guess
That's what I had to do at times with this book - guess! I couldn't figure out some of the prose between the characters. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Sterile

4.0 out of 5 stars Good read!
Being new to James Lee Burkes novels I started with this one as the first in the Dave Robicheaux series. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Big Bertha

4.0 out of 5 stars On The Way To Burnout
This book is the first in the Dave Robicheaux series and the final for Dave on the New Orleans police force. He retires due to burnout. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2003 by Peter Kenney

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